* Jeremiah Mahler (jmahler@pacbell.net) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:22:41AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > What about the idea that anyone (not just maintainers) can submit > packages and they will available immediately to others without > having to go through an intermediate person. Bad idea from a security standpoint, of course. > In contrast, Debian allows only specific people to add new packages > and only the maintainer can fix their packages. This requires work > by specific people which makes development slow. "Specific people" being the entire set of Debian people, which is a pretty decently sized set of people. Stephen
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